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Michael Jackson trial

Panicking Conrad Murray called out for Michael Jackson's oldest son Prince after the pop star stopped breathing, the doctor's trial was told.

The jury heard that Murray rushed downstairs and shouted: "Get help! Get security! Get Prince!"

Moments later Prince, then 12, and his sister, Paris, 11, both rushed into their father's bedroom to find him lifeless on the bed as Murray tried in vain to revive him with CPR. On seeing Jackson's face, his eyes and mouth open, terrified Paris screamed: "Daddy."

The children were ushered out by the star's security staff but both sobbed as they waited in the doorway, with Paris curled up in a ball on the floor.

Jackson's personal chef Kai Chase said the star's children, including seven-year-old Blanket, were playing in the den at lunchtime on June 25, 2009, when "frantic" Murray came down "in a "panic". She added: "I ran for Prince and said, 'Hurry, Dr Murray needs you. There may be something wrong with your father.' I went back to work and Prince approached Dr Murray."

She did not see whether the boy went upstairs with the anguished doctor.

Ms Chase added: "Dr Murray was very disturbed. I stayed in the kitchen. The children were crying and screaming. We hugged, held hands in a circle and prayed. The energy did not feel good. We didn't know what was going on."

Defence lawyer JMichael Flanagan asked the chef: "You saw Dr Murray eyes wide, yelling. He is asking for help. He is asking for security. How do you think a 12-year-old child was going to be able to assist this doctor with a problem with Michael?" Ms Chase replied: "I did what I was told. I went to get Prince." She later saw paramedics and security staff dashing upstairs and was told to leave the house.

In other testimony yesterday, the star's bodyguard Alberto Alvarez told how Murray broke off from giving Jackson CPR and asked him to stash away vials of medicine and a bag of propofol, a powerful anaesthetic that is only supposed to be used in hospitals.

Murray, 58, denies involuntary manslaughter by injecting Jackson with a fatal dose of the knock-out drug as part of a regimen to help him overcome his chronic insomnia. The case at Los Angeles superior court continues.